Bilateral shift operator 2026-10-03
The bilateral shift is unitary. It has empty point spectrum, while its approximate point spectrum is the unit circle. For , normalized vectors with entries on an interval of length fail to satisfy only at the two endpoints, giving residual norm .
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If , thenFor , this gives for every integer . When the positive tail is not square summable, when the negative tail is not square summable, and when neither tail is square summable unless . The case also forces every coordinate to vanish. Thus
The reverse triangle inequality gives, for every ,Hence is bounded below whenever , so such do not belong to the approximate point spectrum.
Now let and define the unit vectorThe equation fails only at the two endpoints, soTherefore the bilateral shift operator has